Vol. 9 No. 019 (2023): Issue 019

غلاف العدد 19 من دورية أسطور

Issue 19 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2023) includes the following studies and articles: “The Periodization and Writing of Morocco’s History” (Houbaida Mohamed); “Egypt As Seen by a Persian Traveler (438-444 AH/ 1045-1052 AD)” (Abdelmajid Bihini); “Social History of 18th- and 19th- Century Morocco: The Role of the Makhzen in Deepening Livelihood Crises” (Mohamed Aitjamal); “British Colonial Knowledge and the Case of Oman: Approaches and Political Implementation” (Nassar bin Saif Alsaadi); “Rewriting the Prophetic Sīra in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s” (Amr Osman); “A Historical Approach to the Teaching of Human Rights Values in Morocco” (Mostafa Hassani Idrissi, Mohammed Zernine); “Le catéchisme révolutionnaire” (François Furet, Houbaida Mohamed); “The Social and Economic Circumstances of Tripoli in the Mid-17th Century (According to the Tahrir Defteri Dated 1645)” (Enver Çakar, Ghina Mrad); “Rosetta, Summer of 1799: A Reading into Oil and Rice Documents” (Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim); “History and Society” (Abdelmajid Kaddouri); “Writing Social and Intellectual History in Light of the Experience of the Training and Research Unit on the Economic and Soc” (Ibrahim al-Qadiri Boutchiche); “Research Findings in Ottoman and Iranian Studies in Morocco” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “Review of Fragmented Identities and the Diaspora of Elites on the Margins of the Islamic World” (Hasan Hafdi Aloui); “Review of From the Year of the Elephant to the Year of Lamerican: Oral Memory and the Historical Record” (Abdellah Herhar).

Published: 2023-01-01

Studies

  • The Periodization and Writing of Morocco’s History

    Author: Houbaida Mohamed
    7-16

    Traditional periodization engages with the particular historical standard of political history, concerned with volatile, constantly evolving political, diplomatic, and military fluctuations in...

  • Egypt As Seen by a Persian Traveler (438-444 AH/ 1045-1052 AD)

    Author: Abdelmajid Bihini
    17-28

    This article considers the employment of travel literature in historical research and the associated methodological risks, mainly in relation to the traveller’s immediate interaction with the...

  • Social History of 18th- and 19th- Century Morocco: The Role of the Makhzen in Deepening Livelihood Crises

    Author: Mohamed Aitjamal
    29-47

    The article aims to answer the question: How did the Makhzen's management of the country's political conditions during the 19th century contribute to the deterioration of public conditions? To...

  • British Colonial Knowledge and the Case of Oman: Approaches and Political Implementation

    Author: Nassar bin Saif Alsaadi
    48-66

    This article analyses aspects of the hegemony that underpins British colonial knowledge and attends to the tools used to protest and resist it. It uses an analytical perspective derived from...

  • Rewriting the Prophetic Sīra in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s

    Author: Amr Osman
    67-80

    In the Islamic world, interest in the Prophet Muhammad is not in itself cause for reflection as to its intent. It is to be expected that a fascination with the sīra would be just as dynamic as...

  • A Historical Approach to the Teaching of Human Rights Values in Morocco

    Authors: Mostafa Hassani Idrissi, Mohammed Zernine
    82-93

    Using a diverse corpus, this study considers the relationship between teaching the values of human rights and the political and pedagogical context of post-independence Morocco. The authors...

Documents and Texts

  • Rosetta, Summer of 1799: A Reading into Oil and Rice Documents

    Author: Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim
    187-207

    This study offers a thorough reading of a requisition order [firda] for products in kind imposed by the Armée d’Orient on the people of Rosetta in August 1799. It then analyses the complex...

Translations

  • Le catéchisme révolutionnaire

    Authors: François Furet, Houbaida Mohamed
    97-132

    François Furet addresses the French Revolution from a critical perspective, particularly through Marxist historiography on the subject from authors and historians such as Albert Soboul and...

  • The Social and Economic Circumstances of Tripoli in the Mid-17th Century (According to the Tahrir Defteri Dated 1645)

    Authors: Enver Çakar, Ghina Mrad
    133-159

    In light of the contents of the 1645 Tahrir Defteri, this study sheds light on the quarters, residents, ethnoreligious makeup, and economic circumstances of the coastal city of Tripoli on the...

Book Reviews

  • Review of Fragmented Identities and the Diaspora of Elites on the Margins of the Islamic World

    Author: Hasan Hafdi Aloui
    163-173

    Title of the book: "Fragmented Identities and the Diaspora of Elites on the Borders of the Islamic World (from the mid 5th century AH/11th century AD to the end of the 9th century AH/15th...

  • Review of From the Year of the Elephant to the Year of Lamerican: Oral Memory and the Historical Record

    Author: Abdellah Herhar
    174-183

    Author: Abdelahad Sabti. Title of the book: From the Year of the Elephant to the Year of the Americans: Oral Memory and the Problematic of Historical Documentation in Morocco. Publisher:...

Ostour Symposium

  • History and Society

    Author: Abdelmajid Kaddouri
    212-217

    The Historian and SocietyThe word “history” carries two meanings. The first refers to a set of events that occurred in the past, while the second indicates the way in which these events are...

  • Writing Social and Intellectual History in Light of the Experience of the Training and Research Unit on the Economic and Soc

    Author: Ibrahim al-Qadiri Boutchiche
    218-237

    This article is a diagnosis of the development of Moroccan social and intellectual historiography over the past two decades, in light of the experience of the Training and Research Unit on the...

  • Research Findings in Ottoman and Iranian Studies in Morocco

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    238-254

    Academics at Middle Eastern universities have taken interest in the Ottoman period as part of the history of their countries, which were controlled by the Sublime Porte for four centuries....